Snap Software Developer reviews

3.2

37% would recommend to a friend

(222 total reviews)
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Evan Spiegel

10% approve of CEO

7% positive business outlook

Software Developer employees have rated Snap with 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 222 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Developer professionals have a good working experience there. Snap is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Developer professionals compared to other employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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222 reviews
1.0
Mar 15, 2018

DON'T COME

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Benefits are pretty good compares to Amazon.

Cons

You will never get your RSU, they will lay you off in the 4th year. And they won't give you any alert before lay off and won't get anything because of layoff. Managment is aweful, it doesn't have any promotion guides in it. Lots of polities here, you won't concentrate on the thing you're working. And Snap doesn't have any roadmap, it keeps changing. For people who are not American, it won't care about your VISA status when unreasonable layoff comes, you get fired even you're the top performer.

1.0
Mar 15, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The pay is good if you enter before IPO, not anymore

Cons

1. Don't be confused by the number they offered you, SNAP stock is trash 2. Endless politics, every employee is forced to involved, nobody wants to or can actually make things better now, especially after the chaotic, politics, unfair, demoralize layoff 3. The upper management blames the product's failure to engineers, and then layoff a bunch of hard-working people while rewarding themselves an absurdly huge amount of bonus 4. The upper management always eats their words, there won't be promotion, bonus, and they are cutting the welfare one by one, while they are very generous to themselves 5. The whole company is ruled by rumor and gossip, every tiny information is top secret in this company, even when is the next promotion cycle is a mystery or where is the bonus. There is absolutely no transparency here. And due to upper management's inability, even the rumor is not trustworthy because they are changing all the time. 5. For those new grad/junior engineer especially, this company won't provide you any mentorship, they expect you to be as good as senior engineers without else's help 6. For those OPT/H1B holders, think twice before you made the decision, the company's policy is brutal during this layoff, the H1B holders will enter the grace period immediately To sum up, you should join this company if: you are a green card holder or citizen, you are willing to be fired at any time without notice, you actually believe this company's stock will rise in the future based on the nasty condition, or they really want you and give you at least double to cover the work overtime, unstable job status, endless politics and the risk of stock price sinking more.

4.0
Mar 14, 2018

Vibrant

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Cool product, determined CEO, good perks

Cons

Engineering is a little bit "all over the place"

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